We need help... A lot of it

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by EricH

Nope, I think I understand you. The cable is terminated to a moving plate on the elevator, on both ends, and the rest of it moves through associated pulleys to the drum, where it wraps around once and continues to the other termination point via more pulleys if needed. See my last post.

the part where I am losing you is the drum. What do you mean by drum? Do you mean the small wheel connected to the motor.

I am starting to catch some sort of drift. will wrapping the cable around the moving wheel make it so theres tension to make it contact the wheel and actually move? Our imediate reaction was we needed something to make the wheel more grippy.